Peter Eight

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Peter Acht (born June 11, 1911 in Marggrabowa , East Prussia ; † May 7, 2010 in Regensburg ) was a German diplomat and historian .

Life

Peter Acht attended the secondary school in Geisenheim in the Rheingau . After studying history and Latin philology in Frankfurt am Main , at the Austrian Institute for Historical Research in Vienna and in Gießen, he was admitted to the University of Gießen in 1936 with the thesis supervised by Theodor Mayer Studies on the Deeding of the Speyer bishops in the 12th and beginning of 13th century Dr. phil. PhD . Eight was a member of the Catholic student associations KDStV Badenia (Strasbourg) Frankfurt am Main (1929) and KDStV Tuiskonia Munich (1983), both in the CV . Eight was a member of the NSDAP . His academic teachers were Hans Hirsch and Theodor Mayer . In Vienna he made friends with Heinrich Appelt and Hans Goetting . Eight worked in the archives service from 1935 to 1952, and from 1948 he was State Archives Councilor at the Bavarian Main State Archives in Munich. He was also a research assistant at the Hessian Historical Commission in Darmstadt . Under the supervision of Johannes Spörl , he completed his habilitation in Munich in 1950 in the subject of Middle History and Historical Auxiliary Sciences with a significant thesis on the traditions of the Tegernsee Monastery . In 1952 he resigned from the archive service and became an associate professor as the successor to Rudolf von Heckel . In 1959, eight became a full professor for historical auxiliary sciences at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1976 he retired .

Act

Eight has published numerous scientific papers on the historical auxiliary sciences and on diplomacy, especially in the series of the Munich historical studies. He also edited source editions .

He was a member of the German Commission for the processing of the Regesta Imperii of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and a member of the Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In these functions he drove the regests of Ludwig of Bavaria in the context of the Regesta Imperii and the edition of the Bavarian traditional books in the context of the sources and discussions on Bavarian history . In 1987 he was awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit for his achievements in the history of Bavaria .

His doctoral students included Peter Herde (1958), Waldemar Schlögl (1961), Alfred Gawlik (1966), Horst Enzensberger (1968/69), Joachim Wild (1969), Alois Schütz (1970), Karl-Ernst Lupprian (1974/75 ) and Johannes Wetzel (1976). Peter Herde (1965) and Waldemar Schlögl (1975) also completed their habilitation with him.

Fonts

  • The Cancellaria in Metz. A chancellery and writing school at the turn of the 12th century. Diplomatic relations around the Middle and Lower Rhine and to the French west. Diesterweg, Frankfurt am Main 1940 (= writings of the Scientific Institute of the Alsace-Lorraine in the Reich at the University of Frankfurt, new series No. 25).
  • The traditions of the Tegernsee Monastery 1003–1242. Beck, Munich 1952 (= sources and discussions on Bavarian history, new series 9.1) at the same time habilitation thesis
  • Mainz document book. Volume 2: The documents from the death of Archbishop Adalbert I (1137) to the death of Archbishop Konrad (1200). 2 parts, Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 1968 and 1971 (work of the Hessian Commission Darmstadt / Mainzer Urkundenbuch 2).
  • as editor: Regesten Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria (1314–1347) arranged according to archives and libraries. Böhlau, Cologne Weimar and Vienna
    • Johannes Wetzel (editor): Booklet 1: The documents from the archives and libraries of Württemberg. 1991, ISBN 3-412-07990-1
    • Johannes Wetzel (editor): Book 2: The documents from the archives and libraries of Baden. 1994, ISBN 3-412-03593-9
    • Michael Menzel (editor): Book 3: The documents from the monastery and monastery archives in the Bavarian Main State Archive and in the Bavarian State Library. 1996, ISBN 3-412-13294-2
    • Johannes Wetzel (editor): Book 4: The documents from the archives and libraries of Alsace. 1998, ISBN 3-412-09297-5
    • Michael Menzel (editor): Book 5: The documents from the archives and libraries in the administrative region of Swabia (Bavaria). 1998, ISBN 3-412-09398-X
    • Johannes Wetzel (editor): Book 6: The documents from the archives and libraries of Switzerland. 2000, ISBN 3-412-09500-1
    • Michael Menzel (editor): Booklet 7: The documents from the archives and libraries of Upper and Lower Bavaria. 2004, ISBN 3-412-13603-4
  • as editor: Munich Historical Studies. Historical Auxiliary Science Department . Vol. 1-14 and 16-22, 1961-1987
  • as editor: sources and discussions on Bavarian history. Vol. 10-43, 1953-1999

literature

  • Peter Herde: Peter Acht (June 11, 1911– May 7, 2010). An "auxiliary scientist" from the German Empire through the Weimar Republic and National Socialism to the democratic reconstruction. In: Archives for Diplomatics , Vol. 58 (2012), pp. XVII – XXXIII.
  • Waldemar Schlögl, Peter Herde (ed.): Basic sciences and history. Festschrift for Peter Acht. (= Munich historical studies. Department of historical auxiliary sciences, volume 15). Lassleben, Kallmünz 1976, ISBN 3-7847-4415-X (with picture and catalog raisonné )
  • Walter Koch, Alois Schmid , Wilhelm Volkert (eds.): Auxilia Historica. Festschrift for Peter Acht on his ninetieth birthday. Beck 2001, ISBN 3-406-10713-3
  • Walter Koch: Obituary by Peter Acht (1911–2010). In: Journal for Bavarian State History . Volume 73 (2010), Issue 3, pp. 851-855.
  • Walter Koch: Peter Acht †. In: Communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research . Volume 119 (2011), pp. 592-596.
  • Who is who? The German Who's Who. 47th edition 2008/09. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2008, ISBN 978-3-7950-2046-0 , p. 8.
  • Wolfgang Weber: Biographical lexicon for historical studies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. 2nd edition 1987, ISBN 3-8204-8005-6 , p. 1.
  • Joachim Wild: Obituary for Peter Acht. In: Archival Journal . Volume 92 (2011), pp. 375-377.
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. 19th Edition, Volume I: A – J. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-23607-7 , p. 7.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Anne Christine Nagel: In the shadow of the Third Reich. Medieval research in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1970. Göttingen 2005, p. 38, note 48.
  2. ^ "Festschrift Peter Acht (1976)" in Zeitschriftenfreihandmagazin , April 5, 2008
  3. ↑ Review in: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . Volume 59.2 (2003), pp. 602-604. ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Eight, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Marggrabowa , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH May 7, 2010
Place of death regensburg